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- [Avodah] All 24000 died May 20, 2026Thank you for the comprehensive reflections on the history and context of that event. One must however consider that Chazal employed various events to highlight their perspective of the Divine Will their main objective being Moral lessons we must learn from these historical events and even if they exaggerated in order to embellish a point […]
- [Avodah] "community" practices May 20, 2026------------------------------ ????? ???? ??? ???? ??? (?) ??? ????? ???????? ???? ??????. ???? ???? ???? ????? ???? ????? ????? ???? ??????? ????? ????? ?? ?? ???? ??? ????? ???? ????? ??????? ?? ???? ??? ??? ????? ????: ------------------------------ ?However, in a place where men remove hair it appears that he means non-Jewish men, since once […]
- [Avodah] Hashgacha May 13, 2026On ?second day? yom tov in chul someone said to me I must be sleeping better here than at home (Yerushalayim). I responded ?no, I sleep better in Yerushalayim where I know HKBH exercises direct hashgacha over his people. Are there halachic implications of this direct hashgacha? kt joel rich
- [Avodah] To All Seeking Tzedakah: May 13, 2026Posted on the door at a US shul. To All Seeking Tzedakah: We are eager to help you! In order to best do so, we ask that you please seek out Rabbi xxxxx with your Tzedakah needs. The Rabbi can also assist with procurement of a tzedakah from the yyyyyyyyy Tzedakah Committee. We unfortunately cannot […]
- [Avodah] ALL 24000 died May 10, 2026Hadrian speant a lot of time suppressing us after the fall of Beitar. The plowing of the Har haBayis didn't happen at the same time as BK's Temple building project. Beitar fell in the summer of 135 at the end of the BK revolt, historians seem unanimous on that. And the Hadrianic decrees ceased with […]
- [Avodah] ALL 24000 died May 10, 2026On Sat, May 09, 2026 at 08:32:21PM +0000, Ben Bradley via Avodah wrote: > Next, we can be sure that R Akiva died around the end or slightly > after the end of the Bar kochba revolt based of Chazal's reporting of > the circumstances around his death. Hadrian speant a lot of time suppressing […]
- [Avodah] ALL 24000 died May 9, 2026Stating historical theories about events reported in the gemara without comparing all relevant data points in Chazal and then adding known external historical dates is prone to be misleading. This is a case in point. First - the historical data points. The Bar Kochba revolt was from 132-135. The Hadrianic persecutions lasted from the beginning […]
- [Avodah] Arba'a Turim May 7, 2026On Thu, May 7, 2026 at 4:34?PM Micha Berger via Avodah < avodah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 12:00:12PM -0500, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote: > > In our parsha, Onkelos translates "tur" as "sidra" - an orderly > > arrangement... > > From which we get the word "tor", […]
- [Avodah] psak from aged May 7, 2026On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 01:49:19PM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > [I'm converting the opening quote to something our digest software can > handle. -micha] > > Rambam Hilkhos Sanhedrin 2:3: > Ein ma'amidim bekhol haSanhedrin > - lo zaqei muflag bashanim ... > Given the above, was there ever a time […]
- [Avodah] minhag hapashut May 7, 2026On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 06:14:12AM +0300, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote: > The Aruch HaShulchan uses the phrase 201 times in the AHS. In only one of > those cases (allowing bells on a Sefer Torah on Shabbat -- O"C 338:3) does he > add b'chol ha'olam. Any ideas? Could it be something […]